Artist: Iglooghost

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Iglooghost is a young Irish-born UK-based producer Seamus Malliagh who can’t be more than 20 years old but who already has an EP on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label.

News has reached that his heavy-beatdown atmospherics, dayglow rap beats and squiggly electronica will get a full-length release Neō Wax Bloom on the label on September 29th.

After hearing new track ‘Bug Thief’, it makes sense that this project would find a home on the LA Beat scene’s influential label. It’s fizzy and hyperactive, choatic and controlled, it’s a bit like a mild panic attack it darts in so many directions. Whether that is a good thing or bad, depends on your tolerance for such short-attention-span music making. It’s certainly batshit whatever side of the fence you fall on.

it’s got an equally bizarre backstory to boot about a “gelatinous worm-shaped creature called Xiangjiao” and “two giant eyeballs crashing into the mysterious world of Mamu.”

“When a pair of giant eyeballs crash into the strange, misty world of Mamu, the mysterious forces that govern nature itself are disrupted. A life cycle of transforming creatures is thrown off balance, and the odd looking inhabitants of Mamu are forced to adapt to this calamity. These inhabitants include Yomi – a multicoloured pom-pom monk; Lummo – a wise blind witch training a band of melon coloured babies; and Uso – a sneaky bug thief hidden in a green cloak – as well as many others. As their respective stories begin to interlock, the mysteries surrounding the giant eyeballs are slowly revealed.”

The Emigrant Disco is an annual December party for those who have left and stayed put. It happens on Saturday 19th December at Bar Tengu, Yamamori Sushi with sets from Space Dimension Controller, Dip DJ crew, Papa Lou (Discotekken), Joma (Telephones) and Jon Averill (Shock World Service) Tickets: €6-€12 from emigrantdisco.eventbrite.ie

The New Years Festival Dublin Countdown concert on College Green has been announced with The Coronas, Fatboy Slim, Kila, Ryan Sheridan and Little Hours. December 31st / €34.50+ fees on sale Thursday from Ticketmaster.

Popical Island have announced an all-dayer for Saturday December 19th in Whelan’s from 3pm upstairs with Squarehead, Skelocrats, Lie Ins, Ginnels, No Monster Club Owensie, Walpurgis Family, The Number 1s and Me and My Dog.

Then on December 11th, they host Klubnacht in the Goethe Institut on Merrion Square, a night celebrating the very best of Irish and German electronic music held in and throughout the Georgian surrounds of the soon-to-be-refurbished office buildings of The Goethe Institut on Merrion Square. Playing live are Lake People (Permanent Vacation), Carriages, Benihana Music. There’ll be a DJ set from Neil Flynn, visuals by LeTissier and decor by Queens of Neon & Adorn Decor. Tickets are only €7.

Aiken are bringing Vampire Weekend’s Baio to the Workman’s Club for a show on February 22nd 2016. Chris Baio just released his second album of solo synth-pop electronica. Tickets priced €16 + fee on sale Friday from TM.

Hot on the Heels of Love is an event in IMMA on Wednesday December 9th, billed as “a nocturnal counterpart to the major exhibition What We Call Love”. Curated by Padraic E. Moore, performers include Girls Names, Somadrone, School Tour, Wounded Healer along with William Hunt, Conor Foy, Caoimhe Lavelle, Dorje de Burgh, Sophie Merry, Richard Proffitt and Elise Rasmussen. The vent is free but you can book.

For his next release, Iglooghost has a 4-track EP coming out on Flying Lotus’ label Brainfeeder called Chinese Nü Yr on October 30th.

“The EP is a story about a gelatinous worm-shaped creature who wears a witch hat called xiāngjiāo. He/she is really sad because his/her existence consists of infinitely being blasted through endless wormholes into different worlds that don’t make any sense – full of floating fruit and pink mist. He/she has a voice played by my little sister but sometimes my dad. He/she is perennially sad and terrified because it doesn’t make any sense why he/she was randomly born into this existence, but he/she is also shit scared because being shot at light speed through wormholes is probably f**king terrifying.”

For the day that’s in it, 4/20, the aptly named Fly High Society have put together an EP called Fly Thai Green, featuring four blunted and toking new tracks from Bolts, Monto, Iglooghost & Tre’bore. Mary Jane is their muse and appropriately, as well as being released on cassette with a sticker pack and Bandcamp, UK purchases come with a complementary lighter.